Sentences with phrase «promising state approaches»

Promising Approaches in Child Welfare: Foster and Adoptive Parent Licensing, Recruitment, and Retention Children's Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2012) Provides descriptions of promising State approaches regarding areas of common concern identified during the Child and Family Services Review and the Program Improvement Plan process.

Provides descriptions of promising State approaches regarding areas of common concern identified during the Child and Family Services Review and the Program Improvement Plan process.

Promising Approaches in Child Welfare: Foster and Adoptive Parent Licensing, Recruitment, and Retention U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Children's Bureau (2012) Provides descriptions of promising State approaches regarding areas of common concern identified during the Child and Family Services Review and the Program Improvement Plan process.

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The remaining portion of funds is distributed through states to «promising approaches» that have not yet demonstrated their efficacy with evidence that meets the level of rigor required by federal mandates, but must be evaluated if implemented through MIECHV.

After his victory in the presidential poll, President Muhammadu Buhari repeated his campaign promise to adopt a different approach, in tackling the Boko Haram insurgency, and securing the release of the girls of Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, abducted in 2014 by the terrorist group.

I don't believe the best approach is to have one special prosecutor for the entire state,» he said, acknowledging that he had promised to install Mr. Schneiderman in the role if the Senate and Assembly failed to merge their competing proposals by the summer.

CITY HALL — City Council Speaker Christine Quinn promised more affordable day care for middle - class families and a new approach to education in her annual State of the City address Thursday, which was widely seen as a preview of her anticipated run for mayor.

Mayor Bill de Blasio was in attendance for Cuomo's speech and, in a news conference afterward, praised certain aspects of it, such as Cuomo's promise to fight the federal tax overhaul, while taking a wait - and - see approach as the governor still did not unveil a congestion pricing scheme, and outlining a few of the city's top priorities for the upcoming state budget, like more funding for the mayor's plan to extend pre-school to all three - year - olds.

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer also used our studies as part of his research for Baze v. Rees in 2008, which upheld an earlier ruling in Kentucky that the state's approach to administering lethal injections does not violate the «cruel and unusual punishments» ban promised in the Eighth Amendment.

One promising approach here would be to look at people's intuitions about the mental states of robots.

The report outlines specific suggestions for researchers and research funders, United States regulators and policymakers, and international organizations, that could help advance this promising new scientific approach for combatting insect borne human disease and insect agricultural pests while ensuring environmental safety and societal issues are addressed.

The gift allowed Memorial Sloan Kettering to establish a state - of - the - art collaborative research center focused on immune - system - based therapy, an approach showing great promise in the treatment of cancer and several other diseases.

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It is also worth stating that the site is very practical in its approach and doesn't make fake promises.

Still, like No Child Left Behind, these ESSA regulations are going to stand in the way of some promising approaches to state accountability.

Since the ASD launched three years ago, it has been touted by policymakers in Tennessee and across the country as a promising approach for states looking to improve their lowest - performing schools — and criticized by some local educators and communities for not showing results quickly enough.

Only after a few years of stripped - down tenure and evaluations focused on performance, and after a few locales craft some promising approaches, will it make sense for state legislatures to wade in more aggressively.

Also to be approached with suspicion are the promises that will appear in state applications.

Like No Child Left Behind, the proposed ESSA regulations are going to stand in the way of some promising approaches to state accountability.

The solution is for the federal government to approach state applications with great skepticism and go to great lengths to ensure that states intend to faithfully carry out their reform promises.

It could have designed a program that told the states, «Give us your best ideas, and we'll fund the states that are pioneering the most promising approaches.»

This Promising Practices report discusses state approaches that systematically broaden dual enrollment access and provide pre-collegiate experiences to middle - and lower - achieving students.

Our approach works hard to build on and connect with the promising work already being undertaken by other initiatives in communities across the state.

Watch our new video, Supporting States to Close the Education Achievement Gap in which each of AIR's Comprehensive Center directors shares promising approaches from their team's work in Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, and Texas.

Moreover, the promise of the Common Core State Standards in supporting a more well - rounded and whole child approach to education is under threat from this antiquated accountability system.

This paper by Raymond L. Pecheone and Stuart Kahl describes efforts by states to use performance assessment in large - scale state accountability systems and highlights promising practices that can a basis for broadening how the nation approaches assessement and accountability.

Now that I work as a coach with teachers across the United States, I have seen other educators achieve extremely promising results with their students from this approach.

While the rudimentary, one - size - fits - all approach of Adequate Yearly Progress has largely failed to produce the promised returns of increased achievement and opportunity, there still must be a reasonable framework and indicators that ensure the various state accountability systems provide clear, strong, consistent and effective models.

As other states follow a similar path, the experience in Louisiana and Tennessee speaks to the promise and peril of the new approach.

The report, Reparable Harm: Fulfilling the Unkept Promise of Educational Opportunity for California's Long Term English Learners, calls upon state policymakers and leaders to provide solutions and outlines basic principles and promising approaches for school districts to meet the needs of English Learners more effectively.

As Executive Director, Chris leads CCSSO's work with states to raise the bar on standards, assessments, and accountability, transform educator preparation programs, design new approaches to teaching and learning, and implement and sustain promising reforms across the country.

It calls upon state policymakers and leaders to provide solutions and outlines basic principles and promising approaches for school districts to meet the needs of LTELs more effectively.

[Back in the fall of 2010 I attended a University of Connecticut Young Democrats meeting with candidate Dan Malloy in which he took off his jacket, rolled up his sleeves and promised to put an end to Governor Rell's approach of shifting costs from the state to students and their families.

The grant recipients, which represent school districts, charter schools and charter management organizations, reform organizations, and state agencies, are developing what NGLC calls «breakthrough» model schools that integrate personalized, blended, competency - based approaches in creative, promising ways.

Some state bars are more specific about this, and recommend that the genesis of that discussion derives from inside the fee agreement — the Massachusetts Bar Association has done so — and, I think that is the better approach; every lawyer knows or should know that her first obligation is to follow - through on promises made to clients.

Annually, about 1 million abused children — 15 of every 1000 children — are identified in the United States.1 Home visitation has been widely promoted in recent years as a promising approach to preventing health and developmental problems among children, and thousands of home visitation programs have been started during the past decade.2 The role of visitation in preventing child abuse and neglect perhaps has received the most attention.

Recognizing the opportunity to use the MIECHV program to help improve new mothers» mental health, many states are building on promising approaches to address postpartum depression directly through home visiting programs in effective, innovative ways.27 In 2014, 68 percent of state MIECHV - funded programs increased screenings for maternal depressive symptoms and improved referral rates among pregnant women or women enrolled in home visiting programs.28 Additionally, 70 percent of state programs reported improvements to parents» emotional well - being by successfully lowering reported parental stress and reducing rates of depressive symptoms among participating families.29 For example, Moving Beyond Depression is a program that uses in - home cognitive behavioral therapy to ameliorate, not just screen for, maternal depression.

The FACES IV was categorised as «approaching well - established» and Alderfer et al. (2008) stated that the preliminary psychometric information is promising, but more information is required before it can be rated as «well - established».

Research, programs, and advocacy undertaken by Promundo and the MenCare Campaign, including the State of the World's Fathers reports, have demonstrated the promise and effectiveness of well - designed policies, laws, trainings, and other approaches to achieve true equality in care work around the world, and in so doing to help all children and societies achieve their fullest potential.

Drawing on promising examples from several states, as well as from New York City and Alberta, Canada, the authors offer alternative approaches to developing, presenting, and using a multiple - measure accountability system.

The CCDI promised Sky Net would go even further than Fox Hunt by co-ordinating a multi-pronged approach involving multiple state ministries starting in April, including the Ministry of Public Security, which will continue with Operation Fox Hunt.